Updated and Extended "External
Wealth of Nations" Dataset, 1970-2011

This database contains data on foreign assets and foreign
liabilities for a large sample of countries for the period
1970-2011. It also reports, where available, the split between
"portfolio investment: debt securities" and "other investment" for
both the category "external debt assets" and the category "external
debt liabilities".

In using these data, the appropriate reference is to
"updated and extended version of dataset constructed by Lane and
Milesi-Ferretti (2007)" and the appropriate
citation is to:

The dataset (which includes an explanatory readme sheet) is
available here.

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